LANSING – The Connor McCowan murder trial
resumes today in Ingham County Circuit Court and could be the final day of
prosecution's case. McCowan, 19, is charged with open
murder in the Feb. 23 stabbing death of Andrew Singler, a 23-year-old Michigan
State senior.

"So
apparently, you didn't relay it to any officer that your son had been struck in
the head three times," Dewane said. "Sir, you had information that your
son was in a fight and stabbed somebody that was 'like a son' to you and you
don't tell the police that he got punched three times in the face? You didn't
think that was relevant?"

McCowan answered: "I am a parent. I'm not a police
officer; I'm not a lawyer, I'm not an EMT, I was trying to make sense of that.
I lost three kids in seconds here. I'm in shock."

Randy
McCowan said that his son, fearing that "he would be killed", used his
knife to "cut" Singler – noting Connor's emphasis on the word
"cut" and not "stabbed." McCowan then fled, threw the knife
out the car window along Lake Lansing Road, and returned home.

The
discrepancy over the three punches was the focal point of the exchange
between Dewane and Randy McCowan, and grew even tenser when McCowan said the
reason he did not tell any police about this was that no one asked him.

Testimony resumes at 8:30 in front of Judge Clinton Canady III.

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